Sticelett Ledge (Yule collection) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 5.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bembridge Marls Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Upper part of 13r chron just above 1n interval

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous lime mudstone

• The Bembridge Marls were deposited in fresh-brackish water lakes and lagoons

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Andy Yule; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. J. Ross. 2019. The Blattodea (cockroaches), Mantodea (praying mantises) and Dermaptera (earwigs) of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, including the first record of Mantodea from the UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 110:301-311 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207259: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.01.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Dicondylia -
Blattodea "indet. 9"
Blattodea "indet. 9" Latreille 1810 cockroach
NHMUK II.2994
 Odonata - Libellulidae
Pantalinae indet.
Pantalinae indet. Jacobson and Bianchi 1905 common skimmer
IWCMS 2022.1047